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NETGEAR ReadyNAS deleted file recovery
I am new to management of NETGEAR NAs devices, but we have a windows 2008 R2 VM, which has a mapped drive to a file share on a NETGEAR ReadyNAS via SMB. Our collegue asked what would happen if someon...
5ac:
Welcome to the ReadyNAS Community. I am a Mac user so I am not that familiar with the set-up you described but from a ReadyNAS perspective, take a look at using Snapshots.
This is very much like Apple's Time Machine in that it can take Hourly/Daily "snapshots" of the data in a Share and stores it within the Snapshot folder of that Share. If a file is deleted from the Share, you can go into the Snapshot and recover that file.
Obviously, if the entire Share is deleted from the ReadyNAS, there won't be a snapshot folder to recover from.
You don't say what model ReadyNAS you have or what the OS version is but if you have an X86 unit, you can consider using ReadyDR to back-up the Snapshots to another ReadyNAS or to the same ReadyNAS, although that leaves your data more vulnerable.
You should also consider doing a back-up of your data either to another ReadyNAS or to a USB drive attached to your existing ReadyNAS. The ReadyNAS backup service has an option to not delete files that are deleted from the source folders so you could recover old files, even if they were previously deleted from the ReadyNAS.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
David
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